Music Theory – Piano Chords #3
Last time we discussed the different kinds of 7th Chords. This time we’re going to talk about a new chord, which just so happens to be my favorite. It’s called a 9th Chord. When adding a 9th, you don’t want to use too much. A 9th has it’s best results when used in small quantities. You can think of a Major 9th as of ‘something being there’ while a Minor 9th as ‘something missing’. That ‘something’ being a sedimental feeling toward something. What kind of…
Instrumental: Cataracts
This new instrumental was created as Video Game music but can easily be used as a Hip-Hop Instrumental. This particular track was first sculpted with the colors: Purple, Blue, Teal, and a touch of Orange. The purple and blue represent the dark mysterious sky and shadows. The teal represents the moonlight and the orange as lanterns. While the color yellow isn’t enough to list, the brass instruments are pronounced so well that you could almost see it as the flicker from the orange lanterns. When…
Instrumental: It’s Alright
A new and fresh Hip-Hop Instrumental track has just been released by JeFF ZaBorski, called: It’s Alright The track features some dark grunge to build suspense and then it relieves it with some mellow chimes to signify that
Music Theory – Piano Chords #1
Now that we understand progressions and how they move based off the chart, we can build chords instead of single notes at each position. A chord is a combination of notes that harmonize together. When notes are played in certain combinations, they create more complex wavelengths. The interesting part about this, is that certain chords have the same wavelength of specific emotional vocal patterns. And when people display emotions, people subconsciously pick up on them and feel them. That’s just human psychology. If I were…
Music Theory Lesson – Progressions #2
Last week we discussed labeling the keys in each repeating section and labeled them 1-7. We followed that crazy chart. But hopefully you figured it out and created some really interesting chord progressions. If not, please don’t hesitate to ask questions. So you remember in the last lesson, you start on number one and from there it’s a wild card. You can go to any number you want. After that, depending on which number your on, you have to obey which numbers you are…
Music Theory Lesson – Progressions #1
Today I’m going to teach you the very basic starting point of Music Chord Theory & Chord Progressions. Don’t worry, it’s easy as cake. I use a piano to play music and will be teaching my knowledge through it. This Music Theory can be applied to any instrument, but it’s the easiest to visualize on the piano. All you need is a piano, two hands, and a desire to learn. So as you’ve noticed, the piano has many white & black keys with repeating…